TikTok

• If you know a teenager, there’s a 95% chance they use YouTube
• TikTok’s Black-owned business accelerator is back for its third year

  The program is sponsored by TikTok partners Shopify, Talent x Opportunity, and Black Girl Ventures, and will last four weeks.

  
• Lawmakers are leery of TikTok. But Democrats are still using it to connect with constituents.

  Midterms are coming--and TikTok is a big way to “communicate with constituents” in a “fractured media environment."

  
• TikTok and YouTube are Gen Z’s trusted sources for financial advice, according to a new survey

  
• More and more people are turning to TikTok for news
• TikTok’s security chief is stepping back
• Kids are spending 91 minutes a day on TikTok–and 56 minutes on YouTube
• TikTok isn’t just challenging YouTube for views. It’s impacting Google search traffic, too.
• ‘Follow Me’ program will “empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok”
• Here’s how much TikTok paid the entire music industry in 2021 (Report)
• TikTok’s letting some users keep minors from seeing their livestreams
• TikTok Shop struggled to catch on in the U.K. Now Bytedance is dialing back its e-commerce plans.